Surname Saturday - ALDUS (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.

I am working in the 9th great-grandmothers by Ahnentafel number, and I am up to Ancestor #2217 who is Mary ALDUS (1623-1653). [Note: the more recent ancestral families have been covered in earlier posts.]

My ancestral line back through two generations in this ALDUS family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

68.  Aaron Smith (1768-1841)
69.  Mercy Plimpton (1772-1850)

138.  Amos Plimpton (1735-1808)
139.  Mary Guild (1735-1800)

276.  John Plimpton (1708-1756)
277.  Abigail Fisher (1711-1785)

554.  John Fisher (1677-1727)
555.  Abigail Smith (1686-1726)

1108.  John Fisher (1652-1727)
1109.  Hannah Adams (1656-1746)

2216.  Joshua Fisher, born before 02 April 1621 in Syleham, Suffolk, England; died 10 August 1672 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4436. Joshua Fisher and 4437. Elizabeth LNU.  He married 15 March 1643 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
2217.  Mary Aldus, born before 18 October 1623 in Fressingfield, Suffolk, England; died 03 September 1653 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Joshua Fisher and Mary Aldus are:
*  Mary Fisher (1644-????), married 1662 Thomas Clapp (1639-1691).
*  Joshua Fisher (1645-1646).
*  Hannah fisher (1647-1648).
*  Abigail Fisher (1649-????), married 1667 John Holton (1645-1712).
*  Joshua Fisher (1651-1709), married 1674 Esther Wiswall (1654-1711).
*  John Fisher (1652-1727), married (1) 1672 Judith LNU; (2) 1674 Hannah Adams (1656-1746)
*  Hannah Fisher (1653-????), married 1673 William Burroughs (1652-????).

4434.  Nathan Aldous, born before 17 September 1592 in Dennington, Suffolk, England; died 15 March 1676 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 8868. Francis Aldous and 8869. Sarah Gooch.  He married before 1623 in probably Suffolk, England.
4435.  Mary LNU, born about 1595 in England; died 01 January 1677 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Nathan Aldous and Mary are:
*  Mary Aldus (1623-1653), married 1643 Joshua Fisher (1621-1672).
*  Anne Aldus (1626-????).
*  John Aldus (1628-1700), married 1650 Sarah Eliot (1628-1686).

Information about the Aldous family was obtained from:

*  Myrtle Stevens Hyde, "Corrected Ancestry for Nathan Aldus of Early Dedham, Massachusetts", New England Historic Genealogical Register, Volume 150, number 4 (October, 1996), pp. 473ff, 

I have done no original research on this family line.

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